[Thatcherite]

"Indeed all the things you mention did happen on this planet, but it wasn't 1/3 of the stars in the sky falling on it." Exactly, and that being the case, common sense, since we know the 'stars' did not fall literally, and there is no literal 'dragon' rather the word 'dragon' to describe the role that Satan, the devil has been, continues and will be allowed to play, tells us that we are not talking about literal stars.

You are mistaken when you attribute your interpretation of stars falling to common sense. Common sense doesn't allow us to know that it wasn't 1/3 of the stars at all. Awareness that (a) stars are like our sun (b) very far away and (c) exist in large numbers are not derived from common sense. They are all comparatively modern fruits of science that have altered biblical interpretation.

To a medieval priest the belief that 1/3 of the stars in the sky could fall, perhaps creating small craters like meteorites, would have seemed perfectly reasonable. That priest would mock the "new" science of astronomy with its talk of countless stars like our sun and point out that his beliefs have scriptural authority (references to stars falling, references to the stars in heaven stopping in their tracks, geocentric view of universe). I contend that my hypothetical medieval priest mocking the notion of other suns is in exactly the same position as a modern pastor who rejects the evidence for an ancient universe and evolution.

[Just mythoughts]

"You are mistaken when you attribute your interpretation of stars falling to common sense. Common sense doesn't allow us to know that it wasn't 1/3 of the stars at all."

Fine believe whatever you choose, really gives me neither a negative or a positive, what others choose to believe.